For Reporting Unknown for the Country of Smelt and Cast
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has issued new guidance on how to report the country of smelt and cast on derivative aluminum imports for products subject to Section 232 aluminum measures when the importer does not know the country of smelt and cast.
Effective June 28, 2025, if the country of smelt and/or cast is unknown for such imports, then the importers should report “unknown” in lieu of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) code for the unknown smelt and cast country.
When reporting “unknown”, importers will be required to report HTS 9903.85.67 or 9903.85.68, as applicable. These entries will be assessed the 200 percent Section 232 duties on imports of aluminum from Russia.
Detailed documents about the accompanying updates in ACE and the Entry Summary Error Dictionary are available on the ACE CATAIR webpage in the Draft Chapters: Future Capabilities section. This effort will deploy to the Certification and Production environments on June 28, 2025. More information related to Section 232 entry filing requirements can be found on the CBP website here.
Currently, we do not know if these changes will apply retroactively. A.N. Deringer, Inc. will continue to monitor the Federal Register, White House, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection official notifications, as well as the alerts posted by our partners and stakeholders, to keep our customers apprised of U.S. tariff changes and relevant policy changes.
Source: CBP
Due to the rapidly changing application and modifications of duty rates, please note that Deringer is not responsible for coordinating the timing of U.S. entry and imposed tariff rates.
